World Streets makes the claim that it is a truly international journal and world-wide collaborative effort. Anyone can say that, it’s an easy claim to make. But just to put some muscle on it here is a map showing the points of origin of the readers who have come in thus far this morning. A day much like any other.The above map reports the last eighty locations checking into World Streets this morning.

Okay, pretty impressive for an operation as modest as ours, but just in case we are suffering from a bad dose of hubris, here is a list of the countries in which, to the best of our knowledge, Streets had NOT yet been read or even once downloaded from here over the last two years-plus:

Remember our time horizon is the world of the possible measures and services that can help us make significant improvements in lowering emissions, saving energy, and improving the range of transport options in the very near term future, in the next four or five years. So if you are interested in the year 2030, biofuel futures, new technology vehicles, road capacity expansions, monorails or PRT, or massive public works programs, you are invited to check out other sources. There are plenty of them.